A Pill Organizer

[khawkk]

When you get home you're gonna have a whole bunch of pills to take.

Most of them are for a short time but a 'pill organizer'

is inexpensive and helpful.

If this has already been mentioned then you already have one.

Or, if you read the thread 'How many pills do you take?' you've

already figured it out.

Much success in your upcoming surgeries.

 

[DebbyA]

A frequent practice is to have a yellow one for morning and a blue one for night pills.

 

[Superbob]

Jack,

I'll second that. A pill organizer in which you put your pills for each part of the day in a marked container is very important. I still use one.

Let me add one thing -- in the first week at home after surgery, I found a second pill organizer to be VERY helpful -- my wonderful daughter. She organized the pill organizer; in my hazy state of mind, I might have gotten something wrong. She had it all precisely set.

 

[hensylee]

a pill organizer also reminds you if you forget whether you took your morning pills - or night pills. If I wonder if I forgot, I just go look in the pill organizer. and yep, I forgot.

 

[ponygirlmom]

When you get home you're gonna have a whole bunch of pills to take.

Really? I just imagined antibiotics. What kinds of pills did you take?

 

[khawkk]

Really? I just imagined antibiotics. What kinds of pills did you take?

I hope someone can answer that. I received a list when I left the hospital
but where it is I know not.
I do remember big ones and little ones. Pain pills and water pills.
Something to suppliment the water pill and really important, a stool softener.
Plus the 6 basics I still continue to take.

 

[marie]

I use a weekly pill box with the individual days separated. I have two and fill them for two weeks at a time. Like someone else said if I'm not sure if I took one of my pills I just look in the pill box for that day. At the end of the day it should be empty.

As for what I came home from the hospital with. My regular meds plus a pain pill and sotalol. I'm still on the sotalol for A-Fib for another five weeks and then will try coming off of it as per may cardio's instructions.
Earline

 

[Jkm7]

Really? I just imagined antibiotics. What kinds of pills did you take?

This is one of those everyone really is very different answers. Some folks come home with only a pain pill and maybe a baby aspirin. Others come home with a number of high blood pressure Rx's, statins, and any other multitude of pills. My nurse was giving me basic instructions getting me ready to discharge and said,...."You're on so few meds compared to many."

Some folks enter the hospital already taking any number of pills daily and come out with even more.

 

[Cooker]

a pill organizer also reminds you if you forget whether you took your morning pills - or night pills. If I wonder if I forgot, I just go look in the pill organizer. and yep, I forgot.

Amen Ann...I hate to admit it but the older I get the better my forgeter works....I check mine a couple of times a week to make sure I took my medicine.